skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lists like these recognise in public University's that are good and gives all universities a reason to improve.

Whether this ranking is more relevant to researchers or students you'd have to look at the methodology but they are very closely related anyway.

The reason people hate rankings is most people(Bit above 50%)are below average intelligence or go to a below average university hence they hate it when it's pointed out to them.

Even smart people still suffer for thinking they are more intelligent than they are hence they too do not like being rated.

In summary, the truth is yes you are better off going to a higher rated university if external factors are equal. But most people can't handle the truth so it's up to you what you believe.
Don't you have to agree with some EULA and ToS with Apple when connecting your iPhone?

And doesn't these agreements more or less state that Apple can do whatever they please and you have to like it?
"They will only cause the lower classes to move about needlessly" -- The Duke of Wellington, on early steam railroads.

This is how the content industry perceives us. We are viewed as peasants tied to the land, sheep contained within fencing. We are supposed to stay where we are so that we can be sheared effectively.
I meant the "essence" of humanity, as in "what separates us from the animals."

That is what it means to be uniquely human: to match patterns, overzealously.
Who develops HTML5? [HTML5 Open-Source]
This question hit me:"Who develops HTML5?"
We keep hearing about HTML5 and how it is the "future" of the web. In my opinion, I feel the web is transitioning to HTML5 at a very slow pace. So I asked myself, who should I blame?
Simply put, I decided it was the developers of HTML5.

1) Who are they?
2) Why should we wait for them? Why can't HTML5 be open-source? Wouldn't it advance a lot faster?
3) Again, who is developing HTML5?!
Startup Idea: A "Kickstarter" Script/Plugin
App.net built a Kickstarter-esque script to crowdfund, so I was thinking someone could build a plugin/script to allow people to raise funds on their own site for their product. Thoughts?
Am I the only one who disagrees with the author's interpretation of Big Data?

To me, it isn't about the size of the data, but getting useful information out of a data set.

He uses the Morgan Stanley quote “the paradigm shift we are seeing in data management is more about giving customers the technologies they need to store and analyze ‘any’ data set – any type of data, any size of data, for any type of user, and in any timeframe.” to say that Big Data isn't important, but I believe the quote is actually saying that Big Data will become such a norm that it will be a part of the daily operations of most businesses.
Objective Corporate Speak ++ makes me want to leave my job all over again.
So, I'm at the University of Maryland right now. All three mirrors seem to be down, so I couldn't check if my information was on the list. The article suggests this was done with SQL injection? God, I really hope my university is better than that. Or at least hashes passwords. I'd check if they did, but again, mirrors seem to be down. Sad thing is, I wouldn't be surprised. Despite the 15th best comp sci program in the nation, and ridiculous policies like "change you password to new unique password with at least 1 number and capital letter every 180 days", OIT seems useless on security. Sigh.
I like the sound of "A library of human experiences" - it grabs me more than "People sharing things that matter".

Perhaps there is an example or demo you could make public, to give less adventurous visitors (like me) an idea of what it does? (edit: like the /gauss link I just noticed - now I like it)

I'm all for stealth but IMO this is too stealth.
Yes, there is a lot of poor logic. Uni-dimensional education is a double edged sword. In either direction.

STEM has a certain utilitly, but for many its only useful for introductory jobs. Specialization is too great. And Like accounting, it is a limited skillset, especially for senior management positions. So, yes a technical degree will put you in a better 1sr year salary than an english major (or whatever) but its not going to make a career happen per-se.

Their is also dis-utility. There is a power curve thing. Unfortunately, STEM grades are more transparent and the use of curves is prevalent. Two things follow: not everyone is in the 10% (or top 10-20 schools). And there is a clear signal on who is not.

Both this guy and the english major now have to go to grad school or what not to prove something. Maybe they both do MBAs. But then you have an engineer with an MBA, and still this is arguably not great either. He's arguably at a dis-advantage in soft-skills (empathy, creativity), and his former advantage in quantitative elements vs the english major is less.

For some roles, this is fine. But There are plenty of smart people good at maths that make poor investment bankers, or poor economists, or poor product-dev guys. Just like the english major with the weak quant skills, but they are just missing the boat from another angle.

Alternatively, for grad school in STEM you are unlikely to gain entry in the lower half of your class. So again, for the lower performers this can limit options.

The only people that really have business dedicating their (entire) undergrad to science are: phd candidates, medicine, and applied engineers (like civil). And then those top or the top-top 10-20% of they best who are going to be able to leverage the full value of the degree. Go on to Ms, or otherwise put it to use in a deeper career trajectory, or go on to NASA or Google, etc.

What needs to happen with the rest, though, is intesting. The level of technical skills for basic competence is higher today than 30 years ago, so people need to be doing more 3+1 or 4+1 or 2+2 degrees, combining a technical qualification with a proper education in another area, such as liberal arts or something inter-disciplinary. Being one-dimensional is now a bit of a liability (in either direction).

The HN audience is not a great sample, as there are people here for whom total technical dedication indeed pays off (and makes sense). And/or who are bright enough to absorb knowledge in other areas independently. But one is best aware of what is the general and what is the exception. The odds are long otherwise.
Who said anything about high-pressure selling? Don't confuse sales with manipulation.
Apple employees were overworked harder then anyone.. What is your point?!
I believe you are committing the "Yes Minister" fallacy:

"Politician's logic:
We must do something.
This is something.
Therefore we must do it."

Direct government subsidies create deadweight loss, and by hurting the competitive position of companies and technologies that don't get the subsidy, they can actually make the negative externality worse. You can't justify a bad intervention just by pointing to the magnitude of the externality.
If you really think liquidating GM and Chrysler's assets would have resulted in anything other than a net destruction of wealth for the U.S. I don't know what to tell you. What good is a car factory if the entire supply chain has broken down?

You can argue that the loans should not have been made on principle, and you can argue that they were a poor investment vis a vis net return to taxpayer dollars, but it's very hard to argue that they were a net loss on U.S. GDP unless you assume a "controlled bankrupcy" for GM and Chrysler would not have destroyed the U.S. (or global) auto industry. That's a big leap.
It's in 'pure CSS', yet it requires Javascript.
Yeah, because ditching the urban infrastructure we'd developed from the 1600s to 1940 worked out so well for us in the last half of the 20th Century.

Better to create urban islands to both increase the re-urbanization trend and make the US overall more efficient, and extend those out.

Transportation, distribution and logistics, communications, and other infrastructure would be radically simplified.
I'd wager that most automobile use day-to-day doesn't come close to 800km stretches. Would it not be interesting enough if electric cars managed to replace all the fossil-fueled, city-driving cars?
Even with that point aside, I don't think one can write off Tesla based on a snapshot of charging infrastructure at this instant. There are already concepts like Better Place that involve swapping out batteries instead of waiting to charge the one in your vehicle. A little less ambitiously, DC Fast charging stations (already installed in places like Los Angeles, Wash. state and Oregon) charge EVs up to roughly 80% of capacity in around 30 minutes. My point isn't that the system is perfect, or that these concepts completely solve the range issue with EVs. Comparing charging options now to even one or two years ago shows a substantial difference in potential (heh), so it seems a little myopic to say "I can't do this right now perfectly so it will never happen".
whoa, this site is looking good! love the use of subtlepatterns and conservative use of gradients on the buttons. who designed this?
Disgraceful!
Capslock is already ctrl.

Now, I could dmap ctrl-l to esc. But I'm so used to the high-left pivot for 'esc' on Thinkpad keypads (and it's a tall key making for an easier target) that it's not worth the bother.
While it's true that really really good ideas are not free, you seem to be understating the importance of execution.

There is a huge difference between "Let's start an online bookshop", which was an idea many people had, and Amazon.com.

Or between "let's use links like academic citations as a measure of quality of web pages" and google.com.
These types of ranking speak more to the subjectivity of the author than to the repute of the universities.
Thanks for the feedback.

We reasoned that the signed-in experience is a lot richer than what we could show signed-out on the landing page, but perhaps we should not take it to such an extreme :)
Point taken, and it seems to be a common thread. We need to think about how to do this better.
The reason we care about registrations is because we look at it as a community not a marketplace for content.
Nothing wrong with working hard, but the "below average compensation" is something to look at a bit more closely.
Portable systems (Gamebox, GBA, DS) used to have no region locking.
That's because most of the time mp3 encoding will introduce subtle changes and differences between the channels. It's the result of chosen encoding method (joint, stereo, forced stereo) as well as specifics of perceptual coding itself. The best way to create such material is to rip necessary tracks from Dolby surround DVDs.
People who travel and change location once in a while have been learning for a long time, like me, that having an open system is the best bet to avoid trouble. If you use anything else, you never know in what situation you will be in sooner or later.
this talented person is to blame for the design: http://dribbble.com/mhrescak
The sentence "I don't know how to state this more clearly." is a minor mistake.

I often say things like that, and it never works to my benefit. I'm trying to cut it out. It indicates frustration with the audience, and it almost always comes across that way.
I'd be interested in the justifications for "wholly impractical". Businesses are already quite capable of purchasing liability insurance including for pollution, so I imagine the debate is over the benefits of centralized vs. decentralized forensic services.

Regardless of where we come out on the above issue, my primary argument is that by recognizing that the existence of liability statues affects the existence of negative externalities, we recognize that we cannot make the assertion that markets cause the existence of negative externalities without first accounting for the effects of liability statutes.
Great essay.

This is why founders need to run their companies. CEOs with "Industry Experience" will just copy a pattern they saw somewhere else, and rarely succeed.
Actually there are no DRM workarounds (short of pirating the apps) if you jailbreak an iOS device. MarketAccess allows you to legally purchase the apps.

Your original point about Google's geographically restrictions is technically wrong. It's not based on your geolocation but on the simcard inside the phone. If have a simcard from the USA then putting it inside an Android phone gives you access to the USA store even while in Thailand—you can still download over WiFi.

Moreover Android's system solves the problem stated in the original article i.e. move to a new country and Google switches over to that country's store. Move to another and Google switches again. All your apps already downloaded continue to work. All apps purchased can be redownloaded if they aren't restricted in the new country. There is no need to have separate Google Play accounts for different countries or merge accounts.

I have one Google Play account. I have four iTunes accounts (USA, Canada, UK and Japan). Android gets it right imo.
true. this is also why we need teams and investors truly focused on the long term. oDesk had both.
Mechanics of Casual Social Games
I never said that these credentials are required (in fact I don't think they are), but that the OP implicitly believes them to be true. If you complain about the "lack of good technical cofounders" when there are 14,000 CS graduates every year and a flood of 'Ask HN: Smart developer needs job' posts springing up, you must either not be looking very hard or have ridiculously high expectations. The post is meant to highlight the ridiculousness of what many people expect of a "good" technical cofounder.

> I think your entire response is full of regurgitated garbage designed to serve the valleys current paradigm: devs are worth money - ideas are free.

Well that'd be quite ironic, as I'm on the non-technical side myself. In fact my argument is that neither of these are true. If you want to go start a start up, just go goddamn start it. Don't wait for your magic non-technical cofound to come around and solve all your problems.
Rust 0.4 call for testing
Financial ratios and/or debt covenants compared to a reserved cash account - two different things. Sure, the cash account can be a small part of a debt covenant but is usually just that - a very small part.

Which debt covenants were breached? Often times they put these checks in when they think something bad is going to happen. Then a couple of years down the line they mean absolutely nothing, are breached (usually because the company has forgotten about one of them and accidently breaches them) and need to be restructured with the lender asking for something in return.

Sounds like something like the above happened?
Really? Disagree entirely.

This seems very straight-forward.
In addition to what Mike has said about how you set up auth currently the library will use basic auth with the browser dialog. There's a todo in the code to make this a load nicer, and I'd like to get that in the next release.
Not bad! BlingJS is more succint though. ;)
...would be called "Venerials" by the proper genitive form...

I'm going to keep telling myself that your use of 'genitive' right next to 'Venerials' was entirely conscious and deliberate.
Amazon Fresh like service in a small town (Ranchi) in India
I like how they posted the photo of the keys up the top there. Now everyone can have a copy!
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And that is better than the X in pure javascript posts, with X being something which was impressive 10 years ago in other languages
Well if by richer you mean know just what the hell it is, then yeah! :)
So this will be real: http://badassjs.com/post/20294238453/webkit-js-yes-it-has-fi...
"Controlling" would only give you the power to block legit transactions and not to change the ownership of any coins, correct?

If so, could people could react by making btc nodes that consider that rude behavior and begin blacklisting rude nodes wrt which block chains they consider accepted?
changes: https://github.com/mozilla/rust/wiki/Doc-detailed-release-no...
I had the same problem with Google Play on my Android device. I moved to Spain and now I can only buy spanish books which is a little too early for me right now.

There isn't even a setting for which language you want your content in. That would be a first step.

So as said, it isn't just Windows who got a problem with moving across borders.
Apache Mobile Filter
Yes, but there is an important caveat here...

YouTube has a "three strikes" policy with respect to DMCA takedown notices (which doesn't seem to take the result of the takedown into account), so if you dispute too many bogus ContentID claims you could lose your YouTube account.

So I guess the next change to push for is that users should only get a "strike" if the claimant actually sues after a counter-notification (or something like that).
I think that's probably true as it goes, even though adverts above the text are more easily ignored than adverts within the text. Funny old world.
there are infinite opportunities in this space, always will be

easiest way to make money is help other people make money
http://ignitiondeck.com/id/
Oz survey finds HR managers should love freelancers
Yeah you are right, I am probably not looking hard enough. I am not looking for someone who has done the aforementioned rather someone who can build good products. Nevertheless, I will go goddamn start it without a technical cofounder. Thank you.
Codepen is just a viewer and editor for HTML, CSS and Javascript.
NJ4X 1.6.8: new method getMarketInfo(sym) returns all market fields in one go.
3Gear Systems releases free finger tracking SDK for the Kinect
Nokia Lumia 800 Smartphone Soon Going To Be With Windows Phone 7.8 OS
Human beings have been curious since the days of their existence and may be that is the key for the development that paved the way for the evolution of men to what they are now. This quality of curiosity still remains with man and has resulted in getting the better efforts out of man.
In "good" universities in India, this rarely happens.
What did you use to convert to pdf / html?
Yeah, smaller code... Only 2000 lines for something you can do with 2 or 3.
Correct, it would only block legit transactions.

This is one of the proposed solutions. Basically centralize bitcoin by somehow whitelisting good blocks or blacklisting bad ones. The problem is this would require a change to _all_ bitcoin software. Meaning EVERYONE has to upgrade to this new centralized approach. Plus the decentralization of bitcoin is lost.

Pretty sure that solution would spell certain doom for bitcoin.

Gavin offered a solution which _might_ work [1]

[1] http://gavintech.blogspot.com/2012/05/neutralizing-51-attack...
Stock options plan would be another thing to look at a bit more closely.
How big would the CSS-image of Mona Lisa be compered to a "normal" image with the same resolution and pixel density?
Then tell me how to change the region on your XBox Live account so that it will allow you to enter a credit card for a different country (the address section is tied to the region).
> we've heard...

But did you hear it from a tax attorney / certified accountant?

That being said (and: I've no experience in Sweden, and I'm neither atty nor acct) the idea that a US tax liability could be incurred by an international corp/business purchasing a service (e.g., AWS) from company in U.S. ...seems pretty outrageous.
Nokia Has Better Maps Than Apple and Maybe Even Google
The methodology states that 60% of the rank is based on research and citations. There just isn't as much research and papers being published in universities such as IIT as there are in other universities in the world. Few universities in India pride themselves on being research institutions.
> If we want change we must be ready for it. the future is technology. physical school will become obsolete.

Cute. There's an odd, and I would say silly, obsession amongst some tech-obsessed people to claim the soon obsolescence of things like libraries and universities.

It's wonderful the recent huge push and availability of online materials and courses from big universities and others, especially for those who otherwise could not attend a university for whatever reasons, but to dismiss universities as a singular blob shows a certain misunderstanding and appreciation of what they are actually for and for teaching in general.

I'd recommend sitting in on various mentoring services, other student services, practicals and other things and also to read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
This also happens in the Philippines. Sometimes the reason why students outsource projects isn't exactly related to how good they are academically. Some students(both good and bad) finish projects themselves and some outsource because they'd rather focus on a more important subject or project. Some even have part time jobs and really doesn't have the time.
Even the really smart students sometimes outsource, these students have already been training and specializing on one field and if their project happens to be on a different field they'd rather have someone else do it than have bad marks.
And about the project making companies, they're more like "teams" here in the Philippines. Mostly undergrads or graduates that haven't found jobs or programmers that have jobs but wants some extra-income.
No, you're not the only one. I think the author would have written an article about Henry Ford opening his first plant and called it "The Death of the Horseless Carriage"! He is probably right that the buzzword will evolve at some point, but is that observation really worth an article at Forbes these days? Silly linkbait.
The Cloud Wars
Did anybody here attend any of this conferences? What was your impression?
Hope this works. I grew up in Ranchi. In Pune (a relatively big city) I now see a lot of these vegetable home-delivery companies springing up. I am not sure how well they are working out.

http://www.greenofresh.com/

http://buysubzi.com/

http://www.punemandai.com/

There is a very small vegetable vendor near my apartment and the guy also home delivers. I prefer calling him up.
Good point on the city cars and yes you're right, predicting the future has never gone well and I can't predict how the infrastructure is going to look like in a decade or so. However, the hydrogen fuel cell technology is here now and it works well yet there's very little hype around it. Hybrids and EVs on the other hand are hyped to hell and back while (for the time being) they are just not good enough. Hybrids, yes, obviously. But they don't solve the problem. Additionally those batteries weigh quite a bit. Unnecessary weight == wasted energy.
Okay, you've called this action incompetent, irrational, and inconsistent, but you haven't actually explained why it is any of these things. Maybe it's obvious to someone with more working knowledge of accounting, but it's not clear to me. Could you explain?
I don't think it's quite that bad. It's more that implementing a system that will be convenient for users while simultaneously keeping the copyright cartels shut the fuck up, is difficult at best, from a legal and technical point of view (practically, impossible, since the copyright cartels never shut completely the fuck up).

But seriously, neither Microsoft, nor Apple, nor Google think of you as sheep. Facebook? Maybe.
UK to launch new "virtual id cards" for citizens
What are some good tools to measure the kind of stuff they report?

Demographics and invitations
Whose invitations are more accepted
And so forth
Some of those stories are pretty intense
Ex: Nick Slater (Palantir's designer in Palo Alto)
http://www.storylane.com/nickslater
Simple WHOIS shows that storylane.com is online since 2003 (although this service probably wasn't there, but I am a user of storylane since about march 2012) and remenis.com was created on 18-Jun-12, so you've got that clone the other way around.